The Irish standard., 1887-07-09

of mOnarchical institutions feel over
the action of the Boston Common
Council?
". A SHARP REPLY. i.
In all the important cities of the
United States where the Queens ju.
bilee was celebrated the committees of
management availed themselves of the
opportunity to forward impudent invi-
tations to avowed opponents of mon
archy ana all the misery that form of
government implies. Among those
who were the recipients OF these doubt.
f,ll favors was Major Byrne, ex-Vice-
President of the Irish Nationa. League.
The Major is well-known all over the
country as an ardent and devoted advo.
cate of the freedom Of Ireland, and
was elected Vice President of the Irish
Land League at the Philadelphia con-
vention at the time Alexander Sullivan
was chosen President. He is known to
many people in Minneapolis. One of
our citizens, who is intimately &C.
quainted with the Major, says: Il
know Major Byrne we'll. He was a
gallant soldier in the Union army in the
late war; ard, although not born in
Ireland, is one of the truest friends of
Ireland now living. He is the man
that got up the 5-dollar subscriptions
two years ago. which became an i'm
mense success in New York and New
England" From the Boston Pilot we
learn that MAJOR Byrne is President of
the Bay State Telegraph Company,
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Schuyler Electric Light Company
of Hartford, is the civil engineer repre-
senting the interests Of President
Huntington of the Central Pacific Rail-
road, General Agent of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad member of
the CINCINNATI Chamber of Commerce,
beside holding heavy financial interests
in New York, Baltimore and Gin
cinnati. Major Byrne replied to the
letter of invitation af follows:
RossMoRE HOTEL, NEW YORK, June II.
jackson Wallace, ESQ.,, Secretary of Queen Vic
tona's Jubilee Committee:
DEAR SIR Il am in receipt of your
favor inclosing card for admission to
Metropolitan Opera House on the occa-
sion of jubilee services in honor of
Queen Victoria, which I herewith re-
turn, declining the invitation.
AS All American l cannot consent to
being party to honor asovereign whose
reign, in my opinion, has been and is a
stain upon the civilization and Chris
tian progress of the nineteenth CEN
t,,ry. Represel. ting as she does, a ma
tion claiming ostentatiously front rank
in the march of the civilization of the
age, the unchristian and barbarous
ruins of human hope, effort and morals
strung along the pathway of her reign.
affords an eloquent protest against this
galvAnizing process instituted by i'm
perial decree, which Anglo-America
seems inclined 10 SecOnO.
The brutalization of women within
her realm, notably in the mines of
Great Britain, to a level below the
beast of the field, socially, intellectual
ly and morally, to the pecuniary benefit
of the private purses of royalty and its
s'noble'' surroundings, is alone enough
to deny to her the res :ect, much less
the homage, Of all manly men and low
ers of American manhood.
While the elevation of illegitimacy
and social rottenness to the plane of
social distinction, as boas,ingly rated
in ..Burke's Peerage," shows such a re-
voting condition of moral putrefaction
surrounding her officially and person
ally, enjoying her special favors, that
respectability, as we know and recog-
nize it in the social and family struc-
ture of America. cannot afford to recog-
nize her, sovereign though she be. 1t
would be an insult to to the honor and
dignity of American womanhood.
Aside from all this are the 1njustices
and innumanities which have charac-
terized her royal and imperial exten-
sion of power, and which continue to-
day. In India, Egypt and Ireland no.
tably, where the human sorrow born OF
her damnable surrender of the people
to the freebovting propensities and
practices of her favorites for plunder
and determination to cover the crime
would float, if a liquid, her navy, and
will ever rest as perpetual stigma on
British honor.
To-day the champions of the people,
notably Mr.. Gladstone, are under the
ban of her imperial displeasure. which
she carries to the extent of using her
social influence against even the noble
wife of the ex-Premier.
Such is the sovereign you ask Amerl-
cans to honor. A woman whose every
instinct and impulse is abhorrent to
American principles; q woman upon